Philip Seymour Hoffman's number was found in a phone belonging to drug dealer Robert Vineberg after a police raid in Manhattan on Tuesday night based on a tip-off that he may have sold heroin to the late actor.

Vineberg's stepdaughter Christina Soto, 33, confirmed on Tuesday that he did push drugs and knew the Oscar-winning actor but insisted that her stepfather did not sell Hoffman the heroin batch which is believed to have killed him. Vineberg had not seen Hoffman since November, his stepdaughter claimed.

Struggling jazz musician Vineberg, 57, was arrested on Tuesday night in his apartment at 302 Mott Street in the pricey Nolita district of Manhattan and charged with drug possession after hundreds of bags of heroin were found at his home.

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Making ends meet: Vineberg's stepdaughter says he sold drugs to pay his rent when he couldn't find work as a musician

Not involved: Christina Soto says her stepfather did not sell the drugs that Hoffman overdosed on

Tip off: Four people were arrested in apartments at 302 Mott Street in lower Manhattan after police were tipped off by a heroin user

Ms Soto, who lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania, told the New York Post that her father got to know Hoffman while working in TV.

She admitted that Hoffman had visited the apartment where her stepfather sold drugs before adding: 'But he had nothing to do with what killed him.'

The woman said that Vineberg had admired Hoffman greatly and had been excited about the actor visiting his home.

On hearing news of his tragic death on Sunday, Ms Soto remember that her stepfather said: 'If he would have come to me, I would have told him to slow down, and if you’re going to do something, make sure you have someone with you.'

Hoffman, 46, was found dead on Sunday morning at his $10,000-a-month West Village apartment surrounded by 70 bags of heroin and 20 used syringes.

The
Medical Examiner said today that Hoffman's autopsy had been completed
but results were inconclusive, pending toxicology tests.

While searching Hoffman's apartment on
Sunday police found three phones, one of which contained the number of Vineberg.

Robert Vineberg, 57, a musician who goes by the name of Robert Aaron,
was charged with felony drug possession following the police swoop

Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead on Sunday in New York from an apparent heroin overdose. He was 46. His death has sparked investigations into heroin use in the United States and its recent rise in popularity

The informant who led the NYPD to the Manhattan drug den told TMZ on Wednesday that Hoffman had been trying to kick drugs before his tragic death.

The
anonymous source said in some text messages Hoffman told Vineberg that
he wanted to kick the vicious drug. The actor also admitted that the
worst part of getting clean was 'uncontrollable bowel movements', TMZ
reported.

Vineburg's
stepdaughter said he became involved in selling drugs in November
because he was struggling to make ends meet as a musician. Ms Soto said
that her father turned to drug-pushing when he couldn't even find work
washing dishes.

Ms Soto said that her father had no history of arrests and she hoped he would get six months or maybe a 'program'.

Officers found 350 glassine envelopes containing a substance believed to be heroin during the raid.

Officers arrested three men and one woman during the raid which led to the discovery of 350 glassine envelopes of heroin

Robert Aaron Vineberg, 57, with his stepdaughter Christina Soto who admitted today that her stepfather was selling drugs and knew Philip Seymour Hoffman

Vineberg has two apartments in the building, one of which he uses as a music studio.According to the New York Times, the majority of the bags of heroin were found in Vineberg's home.

However none of the packages had the 'Ace of Spades' stamp found on bags at Hoffman's home, a police source told the New York Post.

Vineberg is a musician who goes by the alias Robert Aaron and has had some minor claims to fame.

He
is a jazz musician who claims to have played keyboard for rapper Wyclef
Jean for the last ten years and played flute on Amy Winehouse’s
breakthrough album Frank.

Vineberg describes himself as a 'musical visionary' at Runawayhorses Music, his own label.

During his arrest on Tuesday night, Vineberg denied that he had sold drugs to Hoffman.

A neighbor of Vineberg told MailOnline today that he was a gregarious and social man who sometimes seemed 'spaced out'.

The musician has two apartments in the same run-down building - one is used as a recording studio and he lives in the other.

The woman in her mid-fifties, who did not want
to be named, said she never saw evidence of drug dealing at
the studio or saw Vineberg with a girlfriend.

She said that Vineburg was a talented musician and that there was always people coming and going to his studio.

Luchkiw (pictured left) and Rosenblum (right) were arrested at an apartment on Tuesday evening in downtown Manhattan where Philip Seymour Hoffman had allegedly bought drugs in the past few months

Vineberg's neighbors' DJ Max
Rosenblum and drama student girlfriend Juliana Luchkiw, both 22, were
also arrested in their apartment and charged with misdemeanor drug
possessionand criminal use of drug paraphernalia.

Thomas Kushman 48, was also arrested on drug charges in a third apartment during the police swoop around 7.30pm.

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Investigators also removed computers from the apartments, witnesses told DNAinfo.

The four suspects are expected to be arraigned on Wednesday.

It was earlier revealed that the heroin
found near Hoffman's body on Sunday did not contain the powerful
additive fentanyl, which has been linked to 22 suspected overdose deaths
in western Pennsylvania. However, it could have been tainted with
another deadly ingredient.

The young couple posted a number of pictures of their hedonistic lifestyle on social media accounts

Luchkiw, a student at The New School, was pictured by the Post walking into a Manhattan police station on Tuesday alongside Rosenblum who she has been reportedly dating for a year. She yelled: 'Stop taking pictures, stop taking pictures.'

Rosenblum tried to calm down his girlfriend by telling her: 'This has nothing to do with you, babe.'

Luchkiw's family are from Harrington Park, New Jersey and her father Michael is a
partner at law firm Decotiis FitzPatrick Cole & Wisler based in
Teaneck.

When MailOnline
called her family home a woman who identified herself as Luchkiw’s
mother said: 'You're making me very nervous right now, I can't talk to
you' and hung up.

Rosenblum
appears to have had a similarly privileged upbringing. His brother Josh
is a lawyer while his sister attended Columbia University in New York.

The aspiring DJ constantly plugs his own tracks on social media and appears a fixture of the New York rave scene.

On
February 2, the day that Hoffman was found dead from an apparent drug
overdose, Rosenblum retweeted a message to his Twitter profile which
read: 'Dealer turnt dj.'

One of the apartments searched by police at 320 Mott St after authorities were tipped off that the late Philip Seymour Hoffman had bought drugs in the building in the past few months

Rosenblum is a club DJ and the Luchkiw is a college student. They both revel in their hedonistic lifestyle on social media accounts - and have now been charged with cocaine possession

High living: A picture of an unknown substance posted on a social media account belonging to Rosenblum with the words: 'Blunt and Peach aloe for breakfast'

NYPD officers raid a building on Mott Street in Manhattan on Tuesday evening after receiving a tip-off about drug-dealing in the building

The young couple have been dating for around a year according to reports. They were arrested last night during a drug swoop by the NYPD

The couple, both 22, were arrested at the apartment in lower Manhattan on misdemeanor drug charges along with two older men

A female neighbor told MailOnline on Tuesday that Vineburg could play loud music but that she was shocked by his arrest because he seemed like a 'nice man'

She said: 'I used to throw shoes at the wall because he used to play My Funny Valentine at 3 am. He's an amazing musician but at that time in the morning, it wasn't funny.'

The neighbor said people, mostly musicians, were always coming in and out of the apartment he used as a studio. She added: 'He was a nice, sociable guy - part of the walls of this crappy building.'

She came home last night to find police waiting outside and in the hallways. Some had sniffer dogs. The four arrestees had already been taken away.

The woman said: 'I asked the super what happened and he said ''trouble.'''

The neighbour said she was surprised at the arrests in connection with Hoffman's death.

Another woman told MailOnline that a friend who lived in the building called last night and said ''there's something weird going on'.

When she got there just after 8pm she saw a large police presence. She said: 'It was crazy maybe 30 police with dogs.'

She saw a young man in his 20s standing in the hallway with police. 'He had this expression on his face like ''I'm screwed,''' she added.

General view of D'Agostino's grocery store in the West Village (right) and the ATM where Hoffman was seen withdrawing hundreds of dollars on Saturday, accompanied by men with messenger bags

Law enforcement sources told TMZ
the NYPD obtained a search warrant and raided the apartment after they
were tipped off that two individuals who they believe sold Hoffman
heroin would be at the location.

A fellow
heroin user reportedly called police and gave them the names and
addresses of the alleged drug dealers and said he regularly saw Hoffman
in the dealer's apartment where he would show up twice a week and buy
'bundles' of the drug at a time.

According
to sources, a private wake for Hoffman's family and friends will be
held at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral home from 5pm to 9pm on Thursday.

As police go through his cellphone
records and computer, new details have emerged of how the actor bought
the drugs which ended his life and how O'Donnell desperately tried to
save him.

Bank
records allegedly show the 'Capote' star made six transactions for
$1,200 inside a supermarket near his Manhattan home the day before his
death.

The alleged dealers stood next to the troubled actor as he withdrew money from inside the store on Greenwich Street at approximately 8pm.

They
are also searching for the surveillance footage from the store, which
allegedly shows a 'very sweaty' Hoffman withdrawing the cash and handing
it to two men carrying messenger bags.

Sources
with law enforcement have revealed that no cash was found in side
Hoffman's West Village apartment on the Sunday he was found dead.

The
New York Post has spoken to a witness who said that Hoffman secured his
fix from two men outside of a D'Agostino's a stone's throw away from
his rental home on Saturday night.

Justin Theroux and Joaquin Phoenix arrive at the West Village apartment of Philip Seymour Hoffman's wife and children to pay their respects

Friends: Oscar winner Cate Blanchett and Third Watch star Bobby Cannavale
outside the West Village apartment where Mimi O'Donnell lives as they
arrived to offer his condolences for the loss of Hoffman

The informant told police, according
to TMZ, that sometimes the dealers would run out of their supply and
palm off an inferior product that they'd get from a secondary dealer.

The
heroin user described the secondary supply, which he said Hoffman would
also get, as 'cheap s**t heroin' that was dangerous. The suspects are still in custody.

On Tuesday afternoon, O'Donnell visited an
Upper East Side funeral home to start planning Hoffman's funeral,
scheduled for Friday at St. Ignatius of Loyola.

Ms O'Donnell was wearing a long black
coat when she arrived at the funeral parlor and was helped by a
bodyguard who told reporters to give her space as she walked inside.

Also
on Tuesday, Hoffman's grieving mother, Marilyn O'Connor, arrived in
Manhattan to be with her grandchildren. Hoffman and O'Connor were
extremely close and her even dedicated the 2005 Academy Award he won for
'Capote' to her.

Earlier on Tuesday, some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Ethan Hawke and Joaquin Phoenix, visited the West Village home of Ms O'Donnell to pay their respects.

Bobby Cannavale, Justin Theroux and Cate Blanchett, legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz and film director Paul Thomas Anderson were also among the friends and well-wishers who have come by the Jane Street apartment to offer their condolences to the distraught mother-of-three, who spent 14 years with the actor.

All of the A-listers looked somber and some brought gifts for Hoffman's children, Cooper, 10, Tallulah, 7, and Willa, 5.

It has been claimed that Hoffman's
addiction caused O'Donnell to kick him out of the $4.4 million New York
City family home he shared with her and his three children around three
months ago. As he began to fall apart last year, Ms O'Donnell battled to get him help.

'She clearly wanted him around, but she
wanted him healthy,' a source close to both the dead star told The Daily
News on Tuesday.

Friends of the pair confirmed that Hoffman had been asked to leave for the sake of children as he battled his demons.

Arrival: Philip Seymour Hoffman's mother Marilyn
O'Connor arrived at the $4.4 million home her son used to share with
Mimi O'Donnell, the mother of his three children in the West Village

Longtime lovers: Philip Seymour Hoffman and Mimi O'Donnell, pictured in an undated photo, had been lovers for many years

'It was known that he was struggling
to stay sober, and girlfriend Mimi O'Donnell had given him some tough
love and told him he needed some time away from the kids and to get
straight again,' a Hollywood source said according to the New York Post.

Hoffman
went into rehab and was released just before Christmas. He started
going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings on Perry Street in the West Village.

'He was a gentleman,' said 58-year-old Eddie Donohoe, a regular at the meetings to the New York Daily News.

'He was like a regular guy. He'd be
polite, well-dressed, very sociable to people. Have his coffee, hang out
with the guys across the street, answering the guys' questions.'

But then suddenly, just before Christmas he stopped going to AA and instead started frequenting the Automatic Slims bar.

'He
was drinking liquor, always alone, sitting in the window,' a source
said. Other times he would drink in the White Horse Tavern - famed for
being poet Dylan Thomas' favorite watering hole.

'He'd come in late at night alone, sit at the bar and have a cocktail and not really talk to anyone,' said playwright Marc Spitz.

A few blocks away from Ms O'Donnell's house, and a few blocks further from where Hoffman died, sits the 50 Perry St Workshop, which hosts AA and NA meetings, many of which Hoffman attended.

In fact, an AA member told FOX411 he
spotted Hoffman at a meeting just about a week before the actor died.
The source told us the actor came to an 8.30pm meeting and didn't
appear to be drunk or high.

(Hoffman told the group) 'I'm doing OK. Little situation in life. Life still shows up,' the source recalled.Eddie Donohoe, 58, said he used to see the star at meetings as well.

'He
used to come to meetings, I guess he was trying,' Donohoe said.
'Usually people don't come to meetings if they pick up, because people
will know if they're high.'

Donohoe, who said he was in meetings with Hoffman at least a dozen times, said the actor seemed like a nice guy when he came to the center.

'He was regular guy, he was polite and well dressed, very sociable with people,' he said. 'He would come in daytime or evening. Last time I saw couple months ago. People surrounded him. He had his own clique.'

Donohoe said you don't have to say anything in the meetings, but Hoffman would often speak to the group.

'He would speak. Sometimes he would share. He might raise his hand and say something, what he was going through that day,' Donohoe said. Hoffman's death hit the group hard, according to Donohoe.

'Everybody [at the meeting] was sad about him dying,' he said.

Flowers: A passerby photographs the flowers placed outside the apartment building of actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman, in New York, on Tuesday

As members of Hoffman and O'Donnell's
families arranged to fly in from across the country to attend the
service, it is widely expected that police will confirm that the actor
died as a result of his heroin addiction.

'We still think it's going to be an overdose,' an NYPD source said.

The
46-year-old actor was found dead in the bathroom of his apartment
Sunday. His door was double-locked when his body was found around 11.30am by his assistant and a friend, law enforcement officials have said.

Besides the bank records, investigators discovered buprenorphine, a drug used to treat heroin addiction, at Hoffman's apartment and are examining a computer and two iPads found at the scene for clues, two law enforcement officials said.